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Cigarette advertisements banned from Television.
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The Los Angeles Lakes set a NBA record by winning 33 games in a row!
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A 54 kg 7 meters across, octopus is captured in Hood Canal, Washington.
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US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury.
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"Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv.
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NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20.
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Apple Computers incorporate.
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NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13.
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2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period.
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West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup.
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Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title.
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Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.
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NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August.
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NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams.
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Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score.
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NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.
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38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit.
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NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix.
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UCLA wins a record, 7th consecutive bowl game.
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NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players.
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Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts.
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Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty).
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Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time.
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Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car.
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"Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs.
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For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin in the groin.
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Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach.
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Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001.
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62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis.
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Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'
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Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB.
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Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins lose their 12th consecutive home game, a NHL record.
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YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
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Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa.
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Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
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Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method.
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Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president.
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Super Bowl XLIV; New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win their first super bowl.
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An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen.
